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 === Biorenewables Development Centre ===
-{{Infobox provider-microwave treatment|Company=Biorenewables Development Centre|Image=Cropped-logo1.png|Country=United Kingdom|Webpage=http://www.biorenewables.org|Contact=Anna Alessi}}
+{{Infobox provider-microwave treatment|Company=Biorenewables Development Centre|Image=Cropped-logo1.png|Country=United Kingdom|Webpage=http://www.biorenewables.org|Contact=Anna Alessi|Technology name=Microwave furnaces|TRL=up to 8|Capacity=30|Power=6|Temperature=up to 1000C|Feedstock=lignocellulose biomass|Processable volume=various|Product=biochar, oil}}
-The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is an open-access R&D biorefinery centre, based at the University of York, working at the interface between academia and industry to convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable biorenewable products. With biologists, chemists, and business development specialists the BDC team offers a unique combination of multi-disciplinary expertise coupled with pilot-scale processing capabilities in one coordinated centre. Covering a broad spectrum of biorefining technologies, from feedstock assessment to product evaluation, the team specialise in making the most out of biorenewable materials; helping ideas to survive the valley of death; and de-risking the innovation process.
+The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) has a long history of working with microwave technology for synthesis, extraction, hydrolysis and pyrolysis. Our microwave pyrolysis unit  can pyrolyse a variety of biomass which can then be separated into bio-char and fractionated bio-oil using the integral product collection system. Our pyrolysis microwave unit is capable of continuous flow up to 30 kg/hour at variable power (6 kW) and has been custom built by SAIREM for the BDC. This machine is capable of continuous flow up to 30 kg/hour at variable power (6 kW) and has been custom built by SAIREM for the BDC.  This unique patented technology was developed here at York and is particularly novel as it is a low temperature method (less than 200°C) and separates the bio-oil products into more useful groups.  The second unit at the BDC is the Carbolite custom furnace - a continuous Inconel tube system with a designed temperature limit of 1000 °C. It allows the heating up of organic material in the absence of oxygen.  This furnace has a 50 litre hopper and a heated section length of 2 metres with three programmable heated sections. Material is fed through the furnace via an auger system and can be ran in either continuous or batch mode. The throughput of the furnace is dependent on the material being processed, however there is a 60 litre collection bin and a 20 litre collection pot for any by-products being produced.
 === Biowave Technologies ===